Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

He who fears death either fears the loss of sensation or a different kind of sensation. But if thou shalt have no sensation, neither wilt thou feel any harm; and if thou shalt acquire another kind of sensation, thou wilt be a different kind of living being and thou wilt not cease to live.

Man must be arched and buttressed from within, else the temple wavers to the dust.

Remember: Matter: how tiny your share of it. Time: how brief and fleeting your allotment of it. Fate: how small a role you play in it.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Life is short. That's all there is to say. Get what you can from the present - thoughtfully, justly.

Every instant of time... is a pinprick of eternity.